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Sri Ramakrishna was standing motionless. Narendra was singing, and two or three devotees stood by. M. came and listened. The song held him; apart from the Master's own singing he had never heard such sweet singing anywhere. Suddenly he looked at the Master and stood amazed. The Master stood without a stir, his eyelids not blinking, his breath hardly seeming to move! When M. asked, a devotee told him, "This is called samadhi." M. had never seen or heard of such a thing. He wondered: can thinking of God make a man so wholly unaware of the outer world? What faith and devotion must one have for this to happen! This was the song: